#Trump admin overrode #SocialSecurity staff to list immigrants as dead
A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office & put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.
Two days after the SSA purposely & falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, MD, headquarters.
#law #immigration #labor #Musk #DOGE
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •Greg Pearre, who oversaw a staff of hundreds of tech experts, had pushed back on the #Trump admin’s plan to move the migrants’ names into a #SocialSecurity death database, eliminating their ability to legally earn wages &, ofcls hoped, spurring them to leave the country. In particular, Pearre had clashed w/Scott Coulter, the new chief info officer installed by #ElonMusk. Pearre told Coulter that the plan was #illegal, #cruel & risked declaring the wrong people dead.…
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •But his objections did not go over well w/ #Trump political appointees. And so on Thurs, the security guards in Pearre’s office told him it was time to leave.
They walked Pearre out of the building, capping a momentous internal battle over the novel strategy—pushed by #Musk’s #DOGE & #DHS — to add thousands of immigrants ranging in age from teenagers to octogenarians to the agency’s Death Master File. The dataset is used by govt agencies, employers, banks & landlords…
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •The episode also followed earlier warnings from senior #SocialSecurity ofcls that the database was insecure & could be easily edited without proof of death—a vulnerability, staffers say, that the #Trump admin has now exploited.
The warnings & Pearre’s removal have not previously been reported.
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •This account of how the #Trump admin pushed #SocialSecurity to wrongly declare thousands of living immigrants dead is based on interviews w/15 people, including current & former Social Security ofcls, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, as well as more than two dozen pages of records obtained by WaPo.
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Nonilex
in reply to Nonilex • • •MissConstrue
in reply to Nonilex • • •This is one of their more terrifying public maneuvers. Yes, they wanted to punish those 6000 brown people,but this was a public psyop to let everyone in America know that if you cross the Nazis they will “terminate your financial life” to use the trumpet exact quote.
Being declared dead is insanely difficult to fix, it has happened before and it’s a nightmare for the people caught in it. To do this intentionally and publicly is to send a message : We control you, bow down now.
Kyle Memoir 🍉
in reply to MissConstrue • • •@MissConstrue
Falsification of government records is the fundamental crime here, from which the rest of the evil flows.
Government records = public records (even when classified) retained for the public good.
Public records = ours.
Period.
The groper has his hand in America's pants now.
He loves it.
That's all it's about.
Only the billionaires have a plan.
Kyle Memoir 🍉
in reply to Kyle Memoir 🍉 • • •@MissConstrue
More perspective via commentary of @pluralistic in which the link was embedded:
creditslips.org/creditslips/20…